Tag Archives: BBC

More SNP hypersensitivity about the media … or just a put up job?

Posted on 19 May 2020 by Roger White

Last night on BBC1’s News at Ten the longest item, unsurprisingly, was on the coronavirus crisis, a subject I’ve deliberately avoided until now, and this post isn’t really about the virus. About 1:25 minutes into the programme Fiona Bruce introduced … Continue reading →

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‘How long will this go on?’ – the SNP and the BBC

Posted on 3 June 2019 by Roger White

Scottish nationalist discontent at the BBC is never far from the surface. In one sense, it’s no more than a long tradition of people detecting bias in the media when an apparently adverse editorial judgement is made about news of … Continue reading →

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BBC ignores major news – shock, horror

Posted on 19 July 2018 by Roger White

Well, it does if pro-separation commentator Lesley Riddoch’s tweet a couple of days ago is to be believed: which drew forth the not unreasonable response from the BBC’s Gary Robertson: to which Ms Riddoch responded: Ah, so she wasn’t talking … Continue reading →

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Celebrating the UK: No. 2 in an occasional series – the Mexican cosmologist

Posted on 11 June 2018 by Roger White

Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) Way back in 2015 I wrote a short blog post entitled Celebrating the UK: No. 1 in an occasional series – the El Salvadorean guerilla, the first of what was intended to be a series of … Continue reading →

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Nationalism and flags: the never-ending saga

Posted on 24 January 2018 by Roger White

A while ago I had a wee run-in with Aberdeen airport. Outside their terminal they sport eight flag poles: Source: Google Street View Apart from the fact that the flags are ridiculously small and currently mostly past their best, a … Continue reading →

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The BBC and Nicola Sturgeon

Posted on 27 August 2017 by Roger White

Two days ago the first minister gave a speech entitled We need greater diversity both on and behind our TV screens at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. To give credit where it’s due, it was a thorough and well-informed job … Continue reading →

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Lies, damned lies, and nationalist monitoring of the BBC

Posted on 15 August 2017 by Roger White

How would you set about researching whether a media organisation, let’s say the BBC, was biased in its news output? Qualified academics could give a better answer but my guess is that it would involve at least these steps: a … Continue reading →

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Has Scotland gone mad politically?

Posted on 22 May 2017 by Roger White

Last night there was a general election debate on BBC TV involving the six Scottish party leaders. A woman in the audience, a nurse, asked Nicola Sturgeon an awkward question about the NHS. The details of the question and their … Continue reading →

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The Scottish Six is dead: Mr John Nicolson MP disnae like it

Posted on 22 February 2017 by Roger White

11 a.m. same day: Hoist by my own petard as the BBC have just announced a new TV channel (well five hours a night) for Scotland and various other goodies for BBC Scotland. Completely unexpected and plenty of detail still to … Continue reading →

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Dancing with ambiguities

Posted on 11 November 2016 by Roger White

It was a smart move of the BBC to ask this year’s Reith lecturer, philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, to give his lecture on ‘Country’ in Scotland (audio here, transcript here). It was one a series he called ‘Mistaken identities’ but … Continue reading →

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